Following a tutorial, I attempted to create a basic contact form using PHP. As a beginner in PHP, I found the process fairly straightforward, but encountered some bugs in the code. Upon integrating the code on my website, clicking the submit button redirected me to a page displaying all the PHP code in the browser without actually sending an email.
$email_to = '<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8dfee6f8fef9ffe4e0e2fbe4eecdeae0ece4e1a3eee2e0">[email protected]</a><script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
(function(){try{var s,a,i,j,r,c,l=document.getElementById("__cf_email__");a=l.className;if(a){s='';r=parseInt(a.substr(0,2),16);for(j=2;a.length-j;j+=2){c=parseInt(a.substr(j,2),16)^r;s+=String.fromCharCode(c);}s=document.createTextNode(s);l.parentNode.replaceChild(s,l);}}catch(e {}})();
/* ]]> */
</script>'; //the address to which the email will be sent
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
/*the $header variable is for the additional headers in the mail function,
we are asigning 2 values, first one is FROM and the second one is REPLY-TO.
That way when we want to reply the email gmail(or yahoo or hotmail...) will know
who are we replying to. */
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email\r\n";
if(mail($email_to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
echo 'sent'; // we are sending this text to the ajax request telling it that the mail is sent..
}else{
echo 'failed';// ... or this one to tell it that it wasn't sent
}
Should I attempt to write my own PHP code to complement the existing HTML/jQuery?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.